October 23, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts“The Attempt to Keep Day and Night Together” An interview with Dean F. Echenberg on his war poetry collection The Ransom Center is the new home for the Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry collection, a collection of more than 6,500 volumes of poetry related to people’s experiences with war. The collection was begun in the early 1970s by… read more
October 19, 2017, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsA baroness and her bookshelves in an English parish church In May, the Ransom Center acquired two volumes of Ambrose’s Opera (or Works) in Latin. The edition was published in Basel in 1567. What is most compelling about these particular books, however, is less the writings of the Church Father, as such, and more their story as books.
October 18, 2017, Filed Under: Art, Meet the StaffMeet the Staff: An interview with new Curator of Art Tracy Bonfitto Tracy Bonfitto has joined the Ransom Center as the new curator of art. She has worked at the Getty Research Institute, the Fowler Museum at UCLA, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She was previously a lecturer in the Art History Department at UCLA.
October 18, 2017, Filed Under: Art, Meet the StaffNew Curator of Art appointed The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has appointed a new curator of art who will focus on improving the Ransom Center’s ability to support students, scholars and the public through the interpretation of its rich art holdings.
October 12, 2017, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmClassical cinema’s Mexican revolution Dr. Charles Ramírez Berg is Joe M. Dealey, Sr. Professor in Media Studies in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films was named the Grand Prize winner of the 2016 University… read more
October 5, 2017, Filed Under: UncategorizedStudents, researchers and public have access to archive of Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin holds the archive of novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, the recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature for 2017.
